Saturday, January 3, 2015

Erudite is to Ravenclaw, as Gryfindor is to what?

Dauntless

In Harry Potter, what opened at the close?

Snitch

How many muscles does it take to smile?

42

In what city is the KFC Yum! Center located?

Louisville, KY

What was the first song performed in High School Musical?

Start of Something New

Whats the colostrum?

The first breast milk

Which animal has the largest heart of any land mammal?

Giraffe

Which of the following describe types of electrical circuits?

Parallel and  Series

Microwave ovens heat food by exciting which of the following molecules?

Water

A prion consists only of?

Proteins

Where are the metatarsal bones?

The foot

Which part of the eye responds to light?

Retina

What is the speed of sound?

343 m/s

How can you distinguish a tiger mosquito from a common mosquito?

The stripes in its legs, it stings during day and it flies slowly

What was Pangea?

A super continent

How can you calculate the age of a tree?

Counting the rings of its trunk

Which physical property of light gives rise to our experience of color?

Wavelength of light

Whats the only liquid metal?

Mercury

What other name does the water cycle receive?

Hydrologic cycle

What is the function of the ribosome in a cell?

Protein synthesis

Which is the name of the most extended artery of the human body?

Aorta

What does an speleologist study?

Caves

What is obtained after mixing hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide?

Water and sodium choloride

How is a tooth cavity usually fixed?

By filling it

What is needed for respiration?

Glucose and oxygen

Which is not an electrical SI unit of measurement?

Gallon

Which of these birds has the fastest flap of wings?

Hummingbird

What prevents virus replication?

Interferons

Which two common household items have a violent chemical reaction when combined?

Sodium bicarbonate and vinegar

Which of these is a theory about the creation of the universe?

Big Bang

Au is an abbreviation for which chemical element?

Au- Gold

When are young elephants considered to be adults?

12 to 15 years old

Only two species are poisonous the Mexican beaded and the Gila monster, which is also the largest one in the US. What is it?

Lizard

What is the square root of 169?

13

Whats the name of the chronic mood disorder that alternates periods of hypomanic symptoms with periods of mild depression?

Cyclothymia

What happens with the temperature when boiling point is reached?

Its maintained stable

What can not be done as we swallow?

Breathing

What is the building block of matter?

atom

What does a glaucoma provoke if its not treated?

Blindness

What are the audible consequences of apnea?

Snoring

What animal has the highest blood pressure?

Giraffe

Thursday, January 1, 2015

What city are the Blue Jays from?

Toronto

Whats the name of the field hockey move when the ball is lifted with the stick?

Flick

In racewalking, athletes____

Walk

How many players per team are there in court in handball?

7 Players

What Olympic medal does not exist?

Copper Medal

Who Wrote Leviathan?

Thomas Hobbes

Who was auditioned by Mozart and said “he will give the world something worth to be heard”?

Beethoven

What’s the name of the main character in “The Fault in Our Stars” novel by John Green?

Hazel

Who’s the author of the famous painting “The Sunflowers”?

Van Gogh

Who wrote the “Divine Comedy”?

Dante Alighieri

Banksy is the pseudonym of a famous____

Graffiti Artist

How does Hamlet kill Polonius in the Shakespearean tragedy, Hamlet?

Stabs him through a curtain

Whats the name of the main character of the novel “Gone with the Wind”?

Scarlett O'hara

The Holy Bible is the edited and translated book. Which is the second one?

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha

Who built the Sphinx?

Egyptians

Whats the name of a Dutch hero in a play by Goethe?

Egmont

Who wrote “The tunnel”?

Ernesto Sabato

What does “delet” or “delevit” mean in Latin?

Destroys

Whats the name of the princess that told many stories to sultan Schahriar?

Scheherazade

Which author wrote the novel “2666”, which was published posthumously in 2004?

Roberto Bolano

Where do Ming vases come from?

China

Who is the wizard in The Hobbit?

Gandalf

Who painted The Water-Lily Pond?

Monet

Nike was the Greek goddess of what?

Victory

Romanesque art prevailed in what century?

11th, 12th, and 13th century

Where is the “Rock& Roll Hall of Fame” museum?

Cleveland

What is the famous artist Kahlo’s first name?

Frida

What fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen is based on the legend of Undines?

The Little Mermaid

Who wrote the French romantic novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.’?

Victor Hugo

Whats the most important work of Giovanni Bocaccio?

The Decameron

Who lived in 2218 Baker Street?

Sherlock Holmes

Which of these is a type of drum?

Snare

Who painted ‘Tereus Confronted with the Head of His Son ltylus’, also known as ‘The Feast of Tereus’?

Peter Paul Rubens

Who designed the Eiffel Tower?

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

Who is Stephen King?

Author

What historical period was the Mona Lisa painted in?

Renaissance

What’s the name of the captain of the submarine in ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the sea’?

Nemo

Which of this artists suffered from schizophrenia?

Van Gogh

Who wrote “The Firm”?

John Grisham

Who wrote ‘The Magic Mountain’?

Thomas Mann

Who composed ‘Charriots of Fire’?

Vangelis

Who painted ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’?

Pablo Picasso

The Venus de Milo is believed to represent what goddess?

Aphrodite

What gows in a ‘Cescendo’?

Sound

According to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, what is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

42

Who wrote the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’?

Roald Dahl

Which of the following painters is not considered a representant of the lmpressionism?

Van Gogh suffered from schizophrenia

Who is the author of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy?

E L James

Whats the name of the first philosophers?

Presocratics

What year was ‘El Quijote’ published?

1605

Which of these american presidents doesn’t feature in Mount Rushmore?

James Madison

Which german composer only wrote one opera?

Beethoven

What German region is famous for its porcelain?

Saxony

Which European sculptor created the statue “David”?

Michelangelo

Which movie debut the first of Disney’s classic princesses?

Snow White

Where was the theatre born?

Greece

Which of the following is not a musical term?

Ricotta

Which famous artist lived in his own museum until his death?

Salvador Dali

Which one of these stories was adapted by The Brothers Grimm?

The Sleeping Beauty

The painter Eugene Delacroix belongs to what art movement?

Romanticism

What technique is used by Goya in the painting ‘ The Disasters of War’?

Etching

Who was the composer of the Magic Flute?

Mozart

Who’s the most noble of the three musketeers?

Athos

Whats the main theme in Boticelli’s paintings?

Religion

The Mona Lisa does not have what feature?

Eyebrows

Which painter struggled with mental illness?

Van Gogh

What material is the saxophone made of?

Brass

Which of Shakespeare’s novel was set in Verona, Italy?

Romeo and Juliet

Who wrote the book “The Notebook”?

Nicholas Sparks

Whats the name of the writer who created John Snow and Cersei Lannister?

George R R Martin

In what room did Napoleon Bonaparte keep the Mona Lisa?

Bathroom

Where was Salvador Dali from?

Spain

How do we call the repetition of sounds in the verses of a strophe?

Rhyme

What art and scientific movement originated in Italy in the 14th century?

Renaissance

What famous composer died at the age of 36 and left a Requiem unfinished?

Mozart